Scotland’s champion winner, Lily Douglas tragically died on Sunday evening after battling cancer for four years.
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Lily was awarded ‘Teenager of Courage’ in July last year at the Daily Record Pride of Scotland Awards.
The talented 14-year-old curled up on the sofa with her mum when she passed just after 7 pm.
Lily, from North Muirton in Perth, bravely battled Ewing Sarcoma – a rare type of cancer that affects bones or the tissue around bones.
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She arrived at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary on Friday, January 14 to begin a potential breakthrough drug trial, but before doctors could get started, on Thursday, January 15 she suffered a brain bleed.
Her mother, Jane, had been told by medics that they were not sure if Lily would last the night and that if she did survive, they ‘didn’t know what damage would be done.
“Her heart failed but she was on the sofa at home, cuddled into me where she wanted to be.
“She will leave a massive hole in my heart. If love could have saved her she would have lived to a million years old”, her mother wrote on Facebook.
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